Delivering Capital Ambition Cardiff Council Corporate Plan 2020-23 Mae’r ddogfen hon ar gael yn Gymraeg hefyd / WORKING FOR CARDIFF, This document is also available in Welsh WORKING FOR YOU Leader’s Introduction 2020-2023 As my Administration enters the second half of its municipal term, we have reaffirmed our Capital Ambition commitments to create a greener, fairer and stronger capital city. This plan describes in detail how we will deliver our Capital Ambition programme. With the UK having now left the European Union, the plan sets out a positive and progressive response, with the Council investing alongside the private sector in a programme of major regeneration projects, placing a relentless focus on job creation and attracting inward investment. This work will include completing Central Square and the city centre’s transformation as a business district, launching the next phase of Cardiff Bay’s regeneration and delivering a new Industrial Strategy for the east of the city, which will create new jobs in this too often overlooked part of the city. But a strong economy is about much more than simply creating jobs and attracting investment. It is a scandal that many of the poorest communities in Wales – including the one I represent - are less than a stone’s throw away from the nation’s economic centre. And so, through initiatives like the Living Wage City, we will place an equal emphasis on ensuring that the jobs and opportunities created in Cardiff are taken by citizens of all our communities. Education remains our top priority. This plan describes how we will continue to drive up school performance and reduce the attainment gap between children from our most affluent and deprived communities, led by our hundreds of millions pound investment in building new, and improving existing, schools, and our commitment to becoming a Unicef Child Friendly City. We will only achieve our ambition of becoming a Unicef Child Friendly City when Cardiff is a great place to grow up for all our children. Indeed, there can scarcely be a more important issue for the Council or the city than how we look after our most vulnerable children, particularly those in our care. We have invested in a new preventative, early help service for families that will put the right intervention in place, at the right time, in the right way. Over the next year, I expect this approach to begin making a big impact in helping families well before they reach a point of crisis. And we will make sure that the children in our care have the support from us, as a Corporate Parent, that any child would expect from their parent. As with our youngest citizens, so too our oldest. The partnership working between the Council and the University Health Board, be it Council staff working alongside the nurses and doctors on the wards in the Heath or in facilities like the Dementia Centre in Ely, is an inspiration. As the cuts continue to come, these teams are lighting the path that other public services will need to follow. They are a perfect example of what I mean when I talk about creating in our public services ‘One Team, working for Cardiff’. 1 DELIVERING CAPITAL AMBITION We will continue to invest in our communities, building new Council homes for the first time in a generation, delivering our programme of community regeneration schemes and making services more accessible through our locality approach, which joins up all public services at the community level, centred on our successful Community Hubs. Allied to this approach, we will break down barriers between Council departments, acting as one team to keep our streets and communities clean, targeting our efforts intensively on inner city wards and areas of greatest need. This plan also sets out how we will respond to the Climate Emergency and ensure that Cardiff grows in a resilient and sustainable way. In no area of city life will this be more important than in shifting to sustainable transport. We have set out a £1billion programme of rail, bus and bike projects to drastically reduce our carbon emissions, air pollution and congestion, in addition to a range of initiatives in sustainable energy, housing and food. For those young people worried about your future, you have my commitment that we will do everything in our power to deliver this Green New Deal, and that Cardiff will play its part in meeting the challenge of the Climate Emergency. We do not underestimate the difficulty of delivering our agenda. It will require bold solutions and big ideas, allied to ambitious and determined leadership, prepared to assemble a coalition of the willing. But I approach the years ahead with confidence, because I know that these are qualities that we in Cardiff have in abundance. I look forward to working with partners from every community of our great city to deliver our Capital Ambition of creating a greener, fairer, stronger future for Cardiff. Cllr Huw Thomas Leader of Cardiff Council 2 DELIVERING CAPITAL AMBITION Capital Ambition Priority: Working for Cardiff 1. Cardiff is a great place to grow up Page 09 2. Cardiff is a great place to grow older Page 23 3. Supporting people out of poverty Page 31 4. Safe, confident and empowered communities Page 39 Capital Ambition Priority: Working for Wales 5. A capital city that works for Wales Page 49 Capital Ambition Priority: Working for the Future 6. Cardiff grows in a resilient way Page 57 Capital Ambition Priority: Working for Public Services 7. Modernising and integrating our public services Page 67 Capital Ambition To outline its ambitions for the city, the Council’s Setting Well-being Objectives Administration initially set out a policy programme for the five years from 2017 to 2022, entitled ‘Capital Ambition’. These The Well-being Objectives were set following a self- policy commitments were updated in January 2020. assessment process undertaken by each directorate. This process was designed to ensure that each directorate had Capital Ambition identifies four priorities: due regard to the Sustainable Development Principle by • Working for Cardiff: Making sure that all our citizens can encouraging a consideration of the five ways of working: contribute to, and benefit from, the city’s success. • Long term: The Well-being Objectives and steps in this plan • Working for Wales: A successful Wales needs a successful were informed by the Well-being Assessment 2017, the capital city. Population Needs Assessment and work on Future Trends undertaken by the Cardiff Public Services Board (PSB). • Working for the Future: Managing the city’s growth in a sustainable way. • Prevention: Drawing on the evidence, our Well-being Objectives and steps are designed to tackle both the • Working for Public Services: Making sure our public immediate demand pressures on public services and the services are delivered efficiently, effectively and sustainably root causes of these pressures, most importantly through in the face of the rising demand and reducing budgets. tackling poverty and inequality. • Collaboration: The Well-being Objectives in this plan were Delivering Capital Ambition developed in close collaboration with our public service partners, and the Cardiff PSB has adopted the same seven Delivering Capital Ambition, the Council’s Corporate Plan, Well-being Objectives in its Well-being Plan, reflecting our sets out how the Administration’s priorities for Cardiff will shared aspirations and the common understanding of be achieved, providing clarity on what will be delivered, and challenges facing the city. by when. • Integration: The Well-being Objectives cut across In accordance with the requirements of the Well-being of departmental silos, focussing on what all Council services Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015, Delivering Capital can do to improve the well-being of the people of Cardiff, Ambition sets out Cardiff’s Well-being Objectives, the steps and contribute to the seven national Well-being Goals. The we will take to achieve them and how we will measure Council has also integrated its Strategic Equality Objectives progress. into the Corporate Plan to ensure that the strategic actions for creating a more equal city are embedded in the Council’s Planning and Delivery Framework. Glossary of Terms • Involvement: In developing the Well-being Objectives we • Well-being Objective: sets out what the Council wants to have drawn on the results of the annual Ask Cardiff citizen achieve survey - which received over 3,800 responses - and on focus groups with ‘seldom heard’ groups. We have also drawn on • Outcome Indicator: a measure of city-wide performance the results of the Child Friendly City Survey - which received over 6,000 responses from children and young people - as • Step: what the Council will do, and by when, to help achieve well as feedback from specific consultation exercises, such each Well-being Objective as the Transport Green Paper. • Key Performance Indicator: an indicator of operational performance that shows if the steps the Council are taking are effective • Target: sets out a numerical value on Key Performance Indicators to be achieved • Budget Setting Process: how the Council will ensure that resources are allocated annually for the purpose of taking steps to meet its Objectives • Self-Assessment: a process that directorates undertake to help shape Well-being Objectives and identify the steps for inclusion in Delivering Capital Ambition 5 DELIVERING CAPITAL AMBITION The Council’s Policy Framework • Well-being Plan: focuses on areas of collaborative advantage in the delivery of public services. Both the Capital Ambition sets out the Administration’s policy Council and the Public Services Board will measure progress agenda. The Corporate Plan and the Well-being Plan are key towards achieving the Well-being Objectives using the documents in delivering Capital Ambition, as they translate same indicators of city performance.